Today in tech

David Carr at the New York Times has An Interview With Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder-turned philanthropist. Greg Emerson Bocquet at Newsday said, “.@carr2n talks w Pierre Omidyar abt his admittedly light-on-detail $250M plan for a new kind of news site.” Rand Getlin at Yahoo! News wrote, “.@pierre aims to build a news organization that encourages investigative journalists to express their opinions.” Michael Luo from the New York Times added, “Sad bit from @carr2n interview w/ @pierre: ‘The audience for the most important stories can be depressingly small.’”

There’s even more from Carr in his weekly column, focusing on Tech Wealth and Ideas Heading Into News. Wojtek Gwiazda at Radio Canada International tweeted this quote from the story: "...quality news has become, if not sexy, suddenly attractive to smart digital money." Ellen Weiss added another Carr quote: "For all their differences, the news and technology businesses share a kind of utopianism.”

Pogue then followed his new boss’s lead and posted A Note From Pogue to his own Tumblr page. It begins: “Yes, it’s true: After 13 years, I’m leaving the NY Times to start a new tech site (and much more) at Yahoo.” Carla Zanoni with DNAinfo thinks it’s an “Amazing win.” Jason Perlow with ZDNet tweeted, “David @Pogue has left the NYT. End of an era!” Matt Buchanan at The New Yorker added, “Gadgets as we knew them are dead so it was clearly time to execute the gadget columnists.”

"Tronc, 2016-2016" So reads a micro-obituary written by Nieman Lab's Joshua Benton in response to the weekend's biggest media story: The scoop from Politico's Ken Doctor that Gannett, the nation's second-largest newspaper company ...

"The Onion on the Great Fall of China: Shoddy Chinese-Made Stock Market Collapses," tweets journalist Louisa Lim, sharing a link that, while a parody, still manages to tie together the current Chinese market crisis, ...